The Song of Hiawatha

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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Does anyone else find this pretty racist? Especially the ending.
Sadako Yamamura I guess you missed it but the whole thing was just exoticizing and objectifying Native Americans through a Christian white imperialist lens and it tri…moreI guess you missed it but the whole thing was just exoticizing and objectifying Native Americans through a Christian white imperialist lens and it tried to show the white colonists as a positive influence rather than the destructive influence they really were.(less)
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